The specific objectives of the college are to graduate students who:
Address: Oyo State College Of Nursing And Midwifery, Eleyele, Ibadan Oyo State.
Phone Number: 09096475761, 08135490985
E-mail address: collegeofnursing_midwifery@gmail.com,
oyscollegeofnursingand_midwifery@yahoo.com
College website: www.oyostatecollegeofnursingandmidwifery.com
In the 1920s and 1930s some forms of general nursing education were being given by Christian Missionaries in some parts of the Yoruba land of Nigeria while about the same time, similar nursing training was taking place in some native administrative hospitals in Lagos and Ibadan. The trainees were in the apprenticeship system and were categorized as class three, class two and class one.
Three major factors can be identified as responsible for a change, in favour of serious formal general nursing education in the West of the Niger. The first factor was related to the health assistants and ambulance orderlies with British army during the Second World War which ended in 1945. The demobilized health auxiliaries had to be formally trained as general nurses to be able to render nursing care in civilian hospitals.
The second factor was the birth of the Nursing council of Nigeria in 1946 which was to set standards for nursing education and practice in the country. The council adopted the then syllabus of the Nursing council of England and Wales for training of the general nurses. The Nursing council of Nigeria was empowered by the Nigerian Ordinance of 1947 as the registering authority for all properly trained nurses in the country. The third factor was the establishment of the University College Hospital, Ibadan in 1948. It was anticipated that the faculty of medicine of the College would require a School of Nursing.
The School of Nursing Eleyele Ibadan was sited in 1949 at the old prefabricated army barracks in Eleyele in anticipation of faculty of the College. Unfortunately for various reasons, the School could not blossom into University School of Nursing for many years.
The existence of the Oyo State College of Nursing and Midwifery Library came as a result of institutional transformation, programme which has taken place over the years. Prior to its current college status, the library used to serve the information needs of the School of Nursing Students and staff as well as the Post Basic Student Midwives. Oyo State College of Nursing and Midwifery was formerly known as Oyo State School of Nursing which was established in 1949 while Oyo State School of Midwifery was established in 1954. The School of Nursing Eleyele was the first School of Nursing in Nigeria and it trains student nurses that provide nursing care for the citizenry in rural and urban areas either at primary, secondary or tertiary level of health care settings. The two schools have been training nurses and midwives since their inception contributing their quota to human development and standardized health care delivery.
On August 24, 2005 the two schools namely; Oyo State School of Nursing, Eleyele and Oyo State School of Midwifery, Yemetu, Ibadan was merged together through an enabling act of Oyo State House of Assembly. As a result of this, there was institutional transformation which culminated into the two schools becoming what is known today as Oyo State College of Nursing and Midwifery Eleyele, Ibadan.
The former Governor of Oyo State, His Excellency Senator Rasheed Adewolu Ladoja, up graded the two schools to a College and in 2005, His Excellency graciously signed into law the bill to that effect. The College is now faced with challenges of expanding the scope of training, injecting vitality into academic programmes and increasing human resources and streamlining the courses in the College, in line with what is obtainable in other Polytechnics and Colleges of Nursing and Midwifery in Nigeria.
The School was elevated to a College of Nursing and Midwifery in August, 2005 through Oyo State of Nigeria Gazette No.19, vol. 30 and by the Oyo State College of Nursing and Midwifery Law, 2005.
The elevation was actualized by the present Administration under the able leadership of the tireless and indefatigable Senator Abiola Ajimobi, the Executive Governor when the College took off formally in 7th March, 2014.
The programme currently being run by the College includes:
1. Midwifery Programme
2. Nursing Programme
The College was not under any management team prior its current stature but the pas Principal were listed below:
The Principals in succession are as follows:
The Honourable Commissioner of Health is the Chairman of the Interim Governing Council.